The MemberHub team has deployed an enhancement that will save administrators time by empowering their members to create hubs which can easily be moved under their MemberHub organization. After you click on the New Hub button on Your Dashboard we ask if the hub should be affiliated with an organization. If you are not an administrator of a MemberHub organization, this option will default to “No, this is a stand-alone… read more →

Last week I put up a post on why nonprofit strategies often fail. The message wasn’t ground-breaking or all that entirely original. It was designed to get you asking yourself a lot of questions. My passion for great communication was refueled this morning when John Saddington challenged technology people to put communication first, technology second. We’ve had a quite a few posts here about “communication”, but they don’t get as much attention… read more →

I’m not quite special enough to have a one-word post, so I’ll elaborate a little bit. I am 100% certain that if the people in your organization do not learn how to effectively communicate, then your strategy will fail. So what does this mean? Here are few questions you can ask yourself. Are you communicating to your members? Do your members know your organization’s mission? Your purpose? If you have a… read more →

Your organization’s website is important. You’ve spent money on it. Your members spend time on your website. Visitors go there to learn about your organization. It’s your online brochure to the world. Who are you “Church XYZ”? What is your cause really about “Mr. Nonprofit Organization?” So when you decide to implement a private social network for your members where they can connect and communicate you might consider your website… read more →

Recently, I caught up with Kevin Joyce of Imagine Fellowship in San Antonio, Texas. I would call him the lead pastor but he actually goes by the title “Lead Life Changer”. And I would call Imagine Fellowship a church, but it’s more like A.A. And that’s what they want to do, duplicate the model that A.A. has leaned on since the 30’s to help people all over the country. A… read more →

I recently read the following: “America is the queen of trash. Every day in the U.S., we produce enough trash to equal the weight of the Empire State Building. We throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour, produce enough styrofoam cups annually to circle the earth 436 times and trash enough office paper to build a 12-foot wall from Los Angeles to New York City.” This is just one of… read more →

The winner of our Who Wants $390 for Their Member Organization contest is @PMBoulevard. We have reached out to that organization have learned about a really special nonprofit organization in our nation’s capital called Capitol Letters Writing Center. There are more details coming soon, but we wanted to give all those that followed along an update. Thanks to all that participated in our promotion and thank you most of all… read more →

Tweet this to win! Win $390 for your Church, Non-Profit or Member Organization just by Tweeting! I want @memberhub to donate $390 to a #member-org of my choice. #isum09 http://bit.ly/4BOZwH How To Enter Copy the line above and update your twitter status with that exact phrase, as many times as you like. Please encourage others to retweet it! What You Can Win The winner will choose a member-driven organization to… read more →

If MemberHub was a human body, then hubs would be the cells. Hubs are the building blocks organizations use to build online community, enhance communication and empower their groups to get organized. We give away free hubs for 25 members or less. We feel like that’s pretty nice. And people have certainly taken advantage of this. Of course, we’d love to see many of these people upgrade to a subscription… read more →

One strategic decision that we made up front when we set out to create MemberHub is to make it family-oriented. We’re all so busy these days and it’s increasingly difficult for families to stay organized with all the activities that each family member is involved. Now this isn’t the place for us to talk about over committing your kids to a million activities and leaving no room for real family time,… read more →